Lets go back to 1916 where Hugo Balle, Tristan Tzara, Marcel Janco, and Richard Hue- Isenbeck are finding the Dada artistic movement. These guys are a bunch of anarchists living in Zurich, Switzerland. The Dada movement preaches the "essence of spirit" the freedom of expression, hatred to "the great...
Trench Warfare By 1915 the bolt Lee Enfield Rifle with a range of nearly a mile could fire 25 rounds a minute. Even more devastating was the Vickers Machine Gun which fired 600 rounds a minute. The howitzer could fire shells eight miles. Add grenades, flame throwers and eventually gas and it's no...
The signing of the Versailles Treaty on June 28th 1919 and the formation of the League of Nations were thought to be the two ground-breaking events that would idealistically end war and bring an everlasting peace to the world. Even with the covenant of the League in place, war broke out in 1937...
At the beginning of the First World War, popular opinion was that it would not last more than four months. It was also believed that the science of modern warfare would be so deadly that mankind would demand cessation of such barbarism. The failure to anticipate the severity of war, and to be unprep...
The Treaty of Versailles, which was made after World War One, caused German anger in many ways, including the high reparation claims and how much territory was taken from them. There were also some other actions taken during the 1920-1929 period to try and maintain peace, in the form of treaties and...
Love and war can have many effects on a person. In the novel A Farewell to Arms written by Earnest Hemingway the central character is a young man by the name of Frederic Henry. Fredric is effected by love and war and this causes him to change quite a bit. The novel takes place in Italy during the ...
Adolf Hitler was able to gain the support of the German people in these years through numerous devices, pretty much all of them were propaganda. Hitler came at a good time where the population was fed up with how it was being run and also a great depression had just hit Germany. Hitler also fuelled ...
WWI Essay Causes The four main causes of WWI were nationalism, imperialism, militarism, and the system of alliances. The match that lit the fire was the assassination of Franz Ferdinand, by Gavril Princip. Gavril Princip was a member of the terrorist organization the "Black Hand". After the assas...
The league of nations was an idea of Woodrow Wilson, the president of America from 1914 to 1921. The league was established in 1920. It was set in Switzerland because it was a neutral country. The main 2 countries of the league were Britain and France. Some people say that the league of nations was ...
This combination of awareness and honesty would render Remarque both praised by many for his literary genius and despised by the ultra-Nationalist Nazi regime - the latter held book burnings of All Quiet on the Western Front after exiling Remarque to Switzerland. ...
This essay will discuss the development of theatre in the 20th century. It will be discussed in chronological order. It will trace the development of theatre from the late 19th century through realism, naturalism, symbolism, Epic theatre, Existentialism and the Theatre of the Absurd. With each new g...
Like many European nations, Italy emerged from the First World War as a democracy in distress. Italy was on the winning side, but the war had cost nearly 700,000 Italian lives and over $15 billion. Moreover, Italy had received secret promises of specific territorial gains during the war, only to fin...
